All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
SALLUSTEnough words, little wisdom.
More Sallust Quotes
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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